Why Partners Need Complementary Strengths

A great article that really makes one think about true partnership. I'd add another key: long-term commitment. Somehow, your individual vision for your own life, also conjoins with the long-term vision of the organization.

Even when partners have complementary skills and values, there still needs to be that longterm commitment in order to make the partnership truly valuable and fruitful. This is especially true if you are managing a global and virtual team.

All my best,

Pamela Hawley
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Your timing was perfect; you saved my relationship with my partner. We are in vacation and yesterday we got into a huge argument based only in misunderstanding of our interpretations. There was not possible to see who the oxygen was and who the acetylen was. I introduced her to the article and then we sat with pen and paper committed to a powerful solution. We listed our strengths and weaknesses and then we matched one's strengths with the other weaknesses. They matched perfectly. Many strengths were common to both of us. We realized that together we are so strong that we can melt steel. We promised to have this experience in existence by regularly acknowledging each other for the good work we do and for complementing each other.
It works wonderfully.

I am an executive coach and I will use this technique to empower my clients to create true powerful partnerships and alliances with their associates.

Congratulations in your research and studies and for writing the book. I will buy the book as soon is on the market and make a must read for all my clients.